Niko Pirosmanashvili winter Her descendants survived Reconstruction

Her descendants survived Reconstruction

and philanthropists whose legacies are expansive and enduringly modern

Drawing on extensive archival sources and often using Ira’s own words

Telling their stories alongside his own

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Niko Pirosmanashvili winter Her descendants survived ReconstructionNiko Pirosmanashvili comprehensively tells the story of the life and work of elusive Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanashvili (c. 1866 1918), popularly known as Pirosmani, during one of the most interesting epochs in the history of Georgia. Key essays, both recollections by those who knew him and contemporary scholarship, explore his life as an impoverished artist living in Tbilisi. Charting his influence on the Georgian and Russian avant gardists to the